Our History: Sweet rumble returns to city's skies

Four-engine bomber offers sweet memories of the past

12:44 AM,
Mar. 8, 2014

John Andrew Prime

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John Andrew Prime
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A visit to Shreveport's TAC Air by the heritage B-17F "Memphis Belle" this weekend brings a sweet sound back to the skies over Shreveport and Bossier City.

The loping rumble of four radial engines. always hard to synchronize, is unmistakable, and enough to make the fan of decades-old military airplanes jump up from whatever and run to the door to look and see what old grand airplane from the past is making an unexpected but welcome reappearance.

Lucky for people here, it's the B-17 Flying Fortress this weekend. ...